[Midnightbsd-mports] www/firefox* diffs

[Chris]

On 2021-09-23 10:51, Chris wrote:
> On 2021-09-23 10:48, Chris wrote:
>> On 2021-09-23 10:37, Chris wrote:
>>> On 2021-09-23 10:32, Chris wrote:
>>>> Sorry I know the preferred method is via GitHub pull requests.
>>>> But shortly after getting an account on GitHub a couple 3 years
>>>> ago. I was unable to login. After some 30 days with tech support
>>>> and no progress. I asked them to delete it.
>>>> I don't have this problem with GitLab or Codeberg.
>>>> 
>>>> Anyway. Please find attached 2 git(1) diff's;
>>>> 1) www/firefox-esr (www-firefox-esr.diff
>>>> 2) www/firefox (www-firefox.diff)
>>>> In the case of firefox-esr, it's only "phase 1". I was able to
>>>> eliminate all the errors emanating from the patches in files/.
>>>> But as this is a fresh install on my laptop:
>>>> ( MidnightBSD 2.1.0 #2 29cf808604(stable/2.1)-dirty:
>>>> Mon Sep 20 18:25:51 EDT 2021 root at m2164:
>>>> /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 )
>>>> which isn't up to porting/development standards, This is as far
>>>> as I can go till I can whip it into shape. I've been maintaining
>>>> some 160 FreeBSD ports for around 7 years now. So this isn't
>>>> unfamiliar territory. ;-) Tho there are some subtle differences.
>>>> Which brings me to www/firefox. This one now builds and runs. But
>>>> not w/o problems. So more investigation with firefox itself. To
>>>> determine if it's just firefox or mports.
>>>> Lastly; multimedia/x265 (a depends of multimedia/ffmpeg) a depends
>>>> of firefox. Is a *very* unhappy port; dumping 10's of thousands of
>>>> warnings for Bad Macro definitions. I mention it; as it may relate
>>>> to the firefox unhappiness.
>>> 
>>> Well that sucks. Your MLM gratuitously stripped my attachments. :-(
>> Lets try it again. I had no problem supplying a patch for an Nvidia
>> card back in 2015:
>> (https://www.midnightbsd.org/pipermail/midnightbsd-mports/Week-of-Mon-20151221/000067.html)
>> Maybe it's just the way I'm attaching them...
> Hmm... that didn't work. Lets try one at a time...
> www/firefox-esr
OK this is *complete* nonsense. Why did I waste all this time trying
to help others out? A complete WOT. :-(
No wonder I'm the only one on the MidnightBSD mailing lists.

Sincerely,
disappointed.
> 
>>> 
>>> --Chris
>>>> 
>>>> That's it.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks! :-)
>>>> 
>>>> --Chris
>>>> 
>>>> P.S. This might appear as a "double post". I used the wrong
>>>> From user name in the first posting. Sorry. :-(
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